Youth Tour participants gather before meeting with state legislators.
by Steven Johnson, Staff Writer Jul 14, 2022 | Connections , Connections Archive
About two dozen high school-age students from Virginia, Maryland and Delaware participated in the 2022 Youth Tour, sponsored by the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives. With lingering issues related to the pandemic and accommodations...
Fron left, 2021 Youth Tour delegates from left, Gavin Fowler, CommunityElectric Cooperative; Thomas Connolley, Alyssa Boltz, Lauren Kang and Owen Mank, Choptank Electric Cooperative; Bella Bunn, Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative; Hunter Green, Luke Richey and Cody Scarce, Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative; and Natalee Coates, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, stand by the James River at Jamestown Settlement. (Photo By: Jim Robertson)
by Staff Reports Aug 9, 2021 | Connections Archive
For more than 50 years, teens from rural America have traveled to Washington, D.C., each summer for the “trip of a lifetime,” thanks to their local electric cooperatives. No thanks to a global pandemic, the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour was canceled in both 2020 and...
